The Twilight of Ramesside Egypt. Studies on the History of Egypt at the End of the Ramesside Period. Peinture and Greuze

and Greuze

and Caroline Bachmann

for its part

such as the night and its black sky

with the support of the civil and religious elites on whom they rely to govern and with whom they mingle

The Twilight of Ramesside Egypt. Studies on the History of Egypt at the End of the Ramesside Period. Peinture and GreuzeThe book presents a critical evaluation of the sources relating to the end of the Ramesside period in Egypt. The events which led to the fall of the Ramessides can be compared only with the twilight of the Tuthmosides under the last rulers of the XVIIIth Dynasty, and to some extent also with the end of the XIXth Dynasty, when usurpers and other powers behind the throne played a dominant role. If the crisis of the monarchy at the end of the XVIIIth and